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...Peter G. Fordham '80, chairman of the committee, said yesterday Briggs Hall, which was last painted three years ago in bright primary collors, should be repainted as soon as a student committee selects the colors...
McLaughlin has his hands full. The basketball program is in a sorry state, and while the ex-Fordham star has the intensity and know-how to win, he doesn't have the talent. Good luck, Frank, you'll need...
...Harvard's latest swimming coach seems already adjusted to the Harvard way of life. Joe Bernal, who is coming to Harvard from Fordham next year, says he realizes recruiting is not his job. "The committee made it quite clear it's their responsibility to do that end of it," he notes. Bernal, however, has already had a stroke of luck: the admissions committee last month accepted his star pupil, Robert W. Hackett '81--an Olympic silver medalist--a month after notifying the rest of the incoming freshmen...
Reason would not work. I made my case forcefully, noting that none of the major Catholic schools had parietals anymore, that even Holy Cross had surrendered to co-education, that early-morning chapel had gone the way of all flesh, even at Fordham. In short, all of Ignatius's arguments were bogus--Harvard could not possibly corrupt me any more than the purest citadel of religious learning. Fulton Sheen would have been proud...
...became a horror, and the slightest fudged quadratic would inspire the oak-desk routine. Then Ignatius began dropping hints muttering about how when he was a missionary they really had to discipline the heathens. I looked around and saw nothing but people stepping out to St. John's and Fordham for their admission interviews. With my faith shaken by memories of the last heathen Ignatius had to discipline--an unfortunate physics whiz who three years earlier had barely survived the fall-out when Ignatius heard he was on his way to Yale--I decided it was time for a heavy...